Oak Park man charged with shooting self in leg

Ian FullertonSpecial to the Tribune

Oak Park police arrested a man who accidentally shot himself in the leg while retrieving a gun from his car.

Luis Osorio, 21, was arrested on Dec. 5 and charged with unlawful use of a weapon after police took him into custody at his home on the 400 block of Austin Boulevard, where he allegedly was nursing a gunshot wound.

At around 2 p.m. that afternoon, police responded to a report of a gunshot on the 400 block of Austin. Upon arriving and meeting with witnesses, the officers went to Osorio’s home, where they found him lying on the floor of his bedroom suffering from a gunshot wound on the side of his left leg.

Osorio allegedly told police that he had shot himself while taking a loaded handgun out of the glove compartment of his car, which was parked outside of his home at the time. No altercation was reported in connection to the incident, and police found no evidence that the gun was shot more than once.

Osorio was hospitalized and charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

In a hearing before Cook County Judge Carol A. Kipperman in Maywood branch court on Monday, he was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail, according to court records.